Psychedelic drugs back as treatment

September 5th, 2010

New research confirms that psychedelic drugs are promising treatments for depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and schizophrenia Moheb Costandi writes the Neurophilosophy blog Long before hippie poster boy Timothy Leary invited the world to “Turn on, tune in and drop out”, a group of pioneering psychiatrists working in Canada began to treat alcoholics with lysergic acid diethylamide …